News of the weird

[Antigen]

http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/sum ... %2C00.html

Implanted Microchips Used to Pay Bar Tab
10/1/2004

In Barcelona, Spain, club patrons can have a microchip implanted in their arm that allows them to order and pay for alcoholic drinks without pulling out cash or credit cards, the BBC reported Sept. 29.

The microchip, about the size of a large piece of rice, emits a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) signal and acts as a debit account for patrons when carrying a wallet or purse isn't practical.

At the exclusive VIP Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, where patrons are mainly in bikinis and board shorts, a nurse injects a microchip into the upper arm of guests. The customers are then free to use the VIP lounge and to order alcoholic drinks without handing over cash.

The microchip was the idea of club owner Conrad Chase, who was looking to create the ultimate membership card. Made by VeriChip Corporation, the chip is contained in a tiny glass capsule. It contains a 10-digit number and responds to a scanner's signal. The scanner is linked to a database containing the accounts of customers. When a drink is ordered, the person's arm is scanned and the cost is debited from their account.

Patrons who want the chip taken out are responsible for having it surgically removed.

If there's a worse idea going than locking people up for drug use, it's probably locking them up in close proximity to some tyranical altruist who wants to 'help' them with a problem that probably doesn't exist
-- Ginger Warbis
having had about all the help I can stand!

[Cynthia]

My puppy that we are raising for Guiding Eyes for the Blind has one in his back.  I thought that was kind of sick, but because he cannot talk and is valued at almost $40,000  I understand why they feel it necessary. That is bizzare that anyone would do such a thing for a club.
I bet these same people have no trouble carrying aroung their cell phones while wearing bathing suits.
What next? ::noway::

[BuzzKill]

Well, maybe not next, I feel we at at the very begining, but at some point down the line  -

. . . He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to recieve a mark on their right hand or on their forheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Revelation 13 vs 16 - 17

We are rapidly heading towards a cashless society and this is the kind of technology that will take us there.